Sunday, January 13, 2013

100 Pesto chicken breast with goat cheese and mashed ginger-potatoes

Ingredients (for 2 people):

  • 2 pieces of chicken breast
  • 50 g of tomatoes
  • 20 g of pine nuts
  • 100 g of spinach
  • 1 garlic glove
  • 100 g of rounded goat cheese
  • 4 potatoes
  • 1 ginger tuber
  • 200 ml of cream
  • 1 onion
  • oil, salt, pepper
Peel onion, ginger and potatoes and cut in 1 cm big dices. Stew onion and potatoes in a pot with two tablespoons of oil for 5 minutes. Add ginger dices and season with salt & pepper. Stew for another 5 minutes. Add cream and boil 15-18 minutes until cooked. Puree all short before serving. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Dice tomato and garlic and roast pine nuts in a pan without fat. Puree tomato, garlic, pine nuts and 4 tablespoons of olive oil. Season the pesto with salt and pepper.

Wash and dry the chicken breasts and fry in a pan with oil from both sides for 2-3 minutes. Put in an oven form and cover with the pesto. Put in the oven for 10-14 minutes.

Wash and clean spinach and cut of the stalks. Cut the goat cheese in 1 cm thick pieces. Stew the spinach in a pot with a tablespoon of oil, season with slat and pepper. Take off the stove after 3-4 minutes and cover with goat cheese. Add this mixture to the chicken breast 3-4 minutes before ready.

Serve chicken breast with ginger-potato puree.


(recipe from Hello Fresh)

099 Pork loin with gnocchi and tomatoes

Ingredients (for 2 ppl):

  • 250 g of pork loin
  • 300 f of gnocchi
  • 2 stalks of parsley
  • 50 ml of cream
  • 1 leek
  • 200 g of cherry tomatoes
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 lemon
Wash leek and cut in stripes. Wash tomatoes and cut in quarters. Wash parsley, take off the stalks and hack the leaves.

Boil salt water for the gnocchi and prepare according to instructions.

Wash pork loin, dry it and cut in 1 cm thick medaillons. Fry pork loin from both sides in a hot pan with oil for 2-3 min. Season with salt and pepper.

Peel avocado, remove the stone and cut in small dices. 

Fry leek and tomatoes en another pan with oil for 2 minutes, then add gnocchi and avocado. Season with lemon juice, parsley, pepper, salt and cream.

Serve pork loin with gnocchi and vegetables.


(recipe from Hello Fresh)

Saturday, January 12, 2013

098 Fried potatoes and salad with caramelized walnuts and pear

Ingredients (for 2 ppl):

  • 150 g of lamb's lettuce
  • 1 pear
  • 6 potatoes
  • 50 g of walnuts
  • vinegar, mustard, salt, pepper, sugar
Wash and peel potatoes. Cut in 1 cm big dices. Fry potato dices in a pan with oil and butter for 12 min.

For the dressing mix oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, mustard and a pinch of sugar. Add lettuce briefly before serving.

Peel pear and cut in pieces. Fry together with walnuts in butter. After 4 minues add a tablespoon of sugar and caramelize everything.

Season fried potatoes with salt and pepper. Serve potatoes with salad and dressing.


(recipe from Hello Fresh)

097 Italian Aubergine à la Chris

Ingredients (for 2 ppl):

  • 1 garlic glove
  • 1 onion
  • 1 aubergine
  • 1 glass of peeled tomatoes
  • 1 package of mozzarella
  • olive oil
  • salt, pepper, rosemary
Peel garlic and onion and dice them. Fry for 2-3 minutes in oil, then take out of the pan and cover the bottom of an oven form with it.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Wash aubergine and cut in thin stripes. Fry in heated olive oil from both sides. In the meantime, put the peeled tomatoes in a pot and heat them. Season with salt, pepper and rosemary.

Put a layer of aubergine in the oven form, then tomato, then aubergine.

Cut the mozzarella in thin stripes and cover the aubergines with it. Put in the oven for 15 minutes, then serve it.